Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Cassiday, Julie A., Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism. 288 pp. 2023:12 (U. Wisconsin Pr., US) <708-777>
ISBN 978-0-299-34670-6 hard ¥17,939.- (税込) US$ 79.95 *

In the two decades after the turn of the millennium, Vladimir Putin's control over Russian politics and society grew at a steady pace. As the West liberalized its stance on sexuality and gender, Putin's Russia moved in the opposite direction, remolding the performance of Russian citizenship according to a neoconservative agenda characterized by increasingly exaggerated gender roles. By connecting gendered and sexualized citizenship to developments in Russian popular culture, Julie A. Cassiday argues that heteronormativity and homophobia became a kind of politicized style under Putin's leadership. However, while the multiple modes of gender performativity generated in Russian popular culture between 2000 and 2010 supported Putin's neoconservative agenda, they also helped citizens resist and protest the state's mandate of heteronormativity. Examining everything from memes to the Eurovision Song Contest and self-help literature, Cassiday untangles the discourse of gender to argue that drag, or travesti, became the performative trope par excellence in Putin's Russia. Provocatively, Cassiday further argues that the exaggerated expressions of gender demanded by Putin's regime are best understood as a form of cisgender drag. This smart and lively study provides critical, nuanced analysis of the relationship between popular culture and politics in Russia during Putin's first two decades in power.

Aribogan, Deniz Uelke / Khelghat-Doost, Hamoon (eds.), Constructing Motherhood Identity Against Political Violence: Beyond Crying Mothers. (Contributions to International Relations) 181 pp. 2023:9 (Springer, GW) <708-806>
ISBN 978-3-031-36537-9 hard ¥26,737.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This volume offers a nuanced understanding of female agency in political violence by reviewing and analyzing the political construction of motherhood as a form of social agency against political violence committed by both state and non-state actors in different parts of the world. While the international relations discipline has traditionally viewed the relationship between women and violent actors as an exploitative one, this book demonstrates that taking maternal bodies seriously creates important intellectual space to examine the types and kinds of violence the discipline of IR takes seriously and the types and kinds of resistance practiced by mothers but often overlooked (at least by male/mainstream IR). Focusing on motherhood as an agency of change, this volume will appeal to scholars in the field of gender and international security, think tanks working on political and security affairs, social activists, policymakers, an interested public audience, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking study or research associated with gender and political violence.

Nagy, Victoria M., Male Rape Victimisation on Screen. 244 pp. 2023:11 (Emerald, UK) <708-634>
ISBN 978-1-80262-018-4 hard ¥23,562.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

Research has established that men are unlikely to report being victimised by sexual assault, often out of feelings of embarrassment, shame, fear, and emasculation. Critically examining how the rape of men and boys is represented in television and film, Male Rape Victimisation on Screen argues how presentations of male sexual assault in popular culture have reinforced rape myths associated with male victimisation, as well as the barriers of toxic masculinity that seethe beneath its surface. Employing a feminist and popular criminology framework, Victoria M. Nagy conducts a comprehensive analysis of a range of both adult and child television programmes and films from the past several decades to reveal how rape myths have pervaded popular culture. Turning to reality and the broader implications this has for men who are and are not victims of sexual violence, Nagy explores how knowledge gained from this research can feed into sexual violence prevention efforts and inform a necessary shift in our cultural mindset. Focusing on the under-researched area of male sexual assault, this book broaches cultural, criminology, gender, film, and media studies to reveal how seemingly harmless humour can infiltrate how we think about violent and victimising behaviours.

Aavik, Kadri / Irni, Kuura / Joki, Milla-Maria (eds.), Feminist Animal and Multispecies Studies: Critical Perspectives on Food and Eating. (Critical Animal Studies) 2023:11 (Brill, NE) <708-305>
ISBN 978-90-04-67935-1 hard ¥24,066.- (税込) EUR 99.00

This book develops critical feminist animal and multispecies studies across various societal and environmental contexts. The chapters discuss timely questions broadly related to food and eating, stemming from connections drawn between critical animal studies, feminist theory, and multispecies studies. The themes explored include trans-inclusive ecofeminism, decolonial perspectives to veganism, links between the critique of ableism and animal exploitation, alternatives to dominant Western masculinities invested in meat consumption, and the politics of sex and purity in factory farming. The book explores responses to interlinked forms of exploitation by focusing on sites such as sanctuaries, educational institutions, social media, and animal advocacy.

Abdul Rahman, Nor Aida / Mohd Nur, Nurhayati (eds.), Women in Aviation: Management, Talent and Empowerment During Crisis Era. 235 pp. 2023:10 (Springer, GW) <708-315>
ISBN 978-981-9930-97-5 hard ¥38,892.- (税込) EUR 159.99 *

This book is a comprehensive review and empirical study on women capacity building, leadership characteristics, talent management and women challenges in crises era from an aviation perspective. This book offers a blend of comprehensive and extensive high quality research outputs from highly reputed authors and editors. This book aims to address the following objectives:*explores the women empowerment facets in aviation and its challenges in crisis era, which will be covered throughout the book. Such facets of women empowerment include women awareness of the right of equality, self-confidence, changes in society and at the workplace and capacity building.*examines the women leadership values in aviation, which will be covered throughout the book. Such leadership values include women leader behaviour, impact and followers, leadership characteristics and technology skills*covers key challenges that women in aviation experiencing during crisis era of pandemic Covid-19, war crisis and disaster*readers will be able to understand women research studies in unexplored field, aviation from different points of view. In this sense, they will be able to compare, contrast and comprehend whether the women issue from aviation sector are difference lenses, and delivered similarly or otherwise in different sector or parts of the world. This enables readers to understand differences and subsequent application towards women empowerment and leadership in wider context*readers will gain benefit from multi worldwide contributors which coming from women leaders in the industry who's also a member of worldwide women association such as women in logistics and transport (WILAT), Women in Transport (WIT), Women in Corporate Aviation (WCA). Moreover, this book, proposes a mixture of theory and practice with effective case studies, aims at reaching primarily doctoral, postgraduate, graduate, and final year undergraduate students in business and marketing, logistics and transport, gender studies, cultural studies, and it will also useful and suitable to read for both managers and decision-makers around the world too.

Bennett, Rachel E., Motherhood Confined: Maternal Health in English Prisons, 1853-1955. (Social Histories of Medicine) 224 pp. 2024:1 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <708-352>
ISBN 978-1-5261-6679-1 hard ¥7,205.- (税込) GB￡ 25.00 *

When we imagine life behind the high walls of the fortress-like prisons that were built and modified as the modern prison system was created in the mid-nineteenth century, we conjure up scenes where strict regulation prevailed to control people in body and in mind. An image that poses something of a paradox is that of mothers and their babies living in this carceral environment. This book looks behind the cell doors of these institutions to illuminate the experiences of this group of prisoners. The management of their health alongside the management of penal discipline posed complex conundrums to the prison system. Although rarely fully considered at policy level, this balancing act was negotiated by those who lived and worked in prisons on a daily basis.

Lourgos, Angie Leventis, Life-Altering: Abortion Stories from the Midwest. 192 pp. 2023:12 (U. Missouri Pr., US) <708-368>
ISBN 978-0-8262-2298-5 hard ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Even before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, when roughly half of all U.S. states moved to ban or significantly curtail abortion, people across large swaths of the country were already facing enormous obstacles to accessing the procedure. Life-Altering: Abortion Stories from the Midwest examines different aspects of abortion from the perspectives of those who have terminated pregnancies, illustrating how court cases, state legislation, and religious beliefs can shape the lives and reproductive choices of ordinary people. Based on pieces that originally appeared in the Chicago Tribune, each chapter imparts one person's experience with abortion; in several cases, Leventis Lourgos followed up with her interviewees to find out how their situations and opinions have changed since the first interview and the Dobbs decision. By looking at myriad factors that influence the decision to abort a pregnancy--be they socio-economic, religious, legal, or medical---the accounts collected in this volume challenge the conventional labels of "pro-life" and "pro-choice."

Mahoney, Kate, Feminist Mental Health Activism in England, c. 1968-95. (Gender in History) 248 pp. 2023:12 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <708-369>
ISBN 978-1-5261-6226-7 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Feminist mental health activism in England, c.1968-1995 provides the first in-depth examination of feminist mental health activism in England, employing original oral history interviews alongside detailed case studies of unexplored feminist initiatives. It charts how feminist activists in the late 1960s initially rejected psychological approaches, before employing a range of therapies to understand themselves and support one another. This book charts the emergence of feminist mental health groups in the early 1970s, the development of feminist therapy across the 1980s, and the influence of feminist politics on national charity Mind in the 1990s. It examines what participation in feminist activism felt like; demonstrating how these emotions have influenced the construction of its history. The book simultaneously forges a new direction in the history of mental healthcare in postwar England, establishing how feminists' grassroots support for women redefined 'community care'.

Maxwell, Melody / Scales, T. Laine (eds.), Baptists and Gender: Papers for the Ninth International Conference on Baptist Studies. (James N. Griffith Endowed Series in Baptist Studies) 370 pp. 2023:11 (Mercer U. Pr., US) <708-168>
ISBN 978-0-88146-913-4 paper ¥8,976.- (税込) US$ 40.00

What does it mean to be a gendered person within a specific cultural context? This book analyzes global Baptists' responses to this question in historical perspective. In some twentieth-century contexts, for example, Baptist women were expected to cover their heads during worship services led by men; in others, Baptist women led worship with heads uncovered while men listened. The chapters in this book explore the fascinating ways global Baptists have constructed gender roles over the past four centuries. They fill a gap in scholarship, as few resources have examined Baptists' views of femininity and masculinity (and beyond) in historical and global perspectives. As a compilation of twenty-three papers prepared for the Ninth International Conference on Baptist Studies, this volume is broad in scope. Although the conference was not held due to COVID-19, this book presents the findings prepared for it, with chapters from Baptists in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and Oceania. It thus augments scholarly perspectives on Christianity and gender, including insights on exemplary Baptist women leaders, the diversity of global Baptist gender roles, and Baptist constructions of masculinity. This book provides a more comprehensive study of Baptists and gender than any other work to date.

Neriya-Ben Shahar, Rivka, Strictly Observant: Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women Negotiating Media. 222 pp. 2024:1 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <708-174>
ISBN 978-1-9788-0522-4 hard ¥33,660.- (税込) US$ 150.00
ISBN 978-1-9788-0521-7 paper ¥10,310.- (税込) US$ 45.95

The Amish and ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities have typically been associated with strict religious observance, a renunciation of worldly things, and an obedience of women to men. Women's relationship to media in these communities, however, betrays a more nuanced picture of the boundaries at play and women's roles in negotiating them. Strictly Observant presents a compelling ethnographic study of the complex dynamic between women in both the Pennsylvanian Old Order Amish and Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities and contemporary media technologies. These women regularly establish valuable social, cultural, and religious capital through the countless decisions for use and nonuse of media that they make in their daily lives, and in ways that challenge the gender hierarchies of each community. By exhibiting a deep awareness of how media can be managed to increase their social and religious reputations, these women prompt us to reconsider our outmoded understanding of the Amish and ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities, the role that women play in these communities as agents of change, and our own relationship to media today.

Nicholls, Anthony J. S., Negotiating Masculinity and Identity as a Jewish British Male: Young Jews Talking. 208 pp. 2023:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <708-176>
ISBN 978-3-031-38106-5 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

In this book, Dr. Anthony Nicholls uses a series of in-depth interviews to investigate how young Jews talk about their Jewishness, Britishness, and masculinity. From his analysis, he argues that Jewishness is constructed between adherence to halachic requirement on one hand, and Jewishness experienced as cultural affinity to history, family, and tradition without recourse to halacha on the other hand. He further argues that Britishness is experienced between varying degrees of nationalistic localism against cosmopolitan liberalism played out against a backdrop of Britain contrasted with the rest of the world, and also London against the rest of Britain. Nicholls rejects the view that masculinity is constructed in the inherently unstable terms of physicality against intellectualism. Instead, he argues that it is better considered as lying in a range between competitive hegemonic masculinity and a cooperative model with which physicality and intellectualism combine to produce a more stable and emotionally satisfying mode of living.

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Gallais, Catherine, Fatherhood and Masculinities: Intersections of Care, Bodies and Race. (Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences) 280 pp. 2023:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <708-1067>
ISBN 978-3-031-34131-1 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

Based on novel ethnographic research conducted in New York City, this book explores through the lens of intersectionality how gender impacts men's experiences of full-time fatherhood, as well as how sexuality, race, class, faith, and so on result in unequal access to choices and opportunities as parents. Chapters analyze how perspectives on caregiving are complicated by varying cultural, gendered, and racialized stereotypes and representations that pull different fathers toward or push them away from particular models of fatherhood in an urban context. Additionally, the author interrogates how societal conceptions of men's bodies also play a role in how men understand their experiences of fatherhood. This book will be of interest to scholars and students studying gender, masculinity, and fatherhood.

Leslie, Christopher, From Hyperspace to Hypertext: Masculinity, Globalization, and Their Discontents. 524 pp. 2023:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <708-1082>
ISBN 978-981-9920-26-6 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book illuminates how science fiction studies can support diversity, equity, and inclusion in science and engineering. Shortly before science fiction got its name, a new paradigm connected whiteness and masculinity to the advancement of civilization. In order to show how science fiction authors supported the social construction of these gender and racial norms - and also challenged them - this study analyzes the impact of three major editors and the authors in their orbits: Hugo Gernsback; John W. Campbell, Jr.; and Judith Merril. Supported by a fresh look at archival sources and the author's experience teaching Science and Technology Studies at universities on three continents, this study demonstrates the interconnections among discourses of imperialism, masculinity, and innovation. Readers gain insights into fighting prejudice, the importance of the community of authors and readers, and ideas about how to challenge racism, sexism, and xenophobia in new creative work. This stimulating book demonstrates how education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) can be enhanced by adding the liberal arts, such as historical and literary studies, to create STEAM.

Akass, Kim, Mothers on American Television: From Here to Maternity. 208 pp. 2023:9 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <708-1087>
ISBN 978-1-5261-6940-2 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Mothers on American television takes an in-depth look at how motherhood is represented on some of the most popular television series produced this century. Adopting a feminist, Marxist, cultural studies and psychoanalytical approach, the book offers a history of the positioning of mothers within American society. It provides detailed analysis of The Sopranos, Sex and the City, The Handmaid's Tale and more, while reflecting on the newspaper 'mommy wars', employment patterns and alternative views of motherhood.

Banner, Lois W., Ideal Beauty: The Life and Times of Greta Garbo. 286 pp. 2023:9 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <708-1091>
ISBN 978-1-9788-0650-4 hard ¥7,841.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

One of the silver screen's greatest beauties, Greta Garbo was also one of its most profound enigmas. A star in both silent pictures and talkies, Garbo kept viewers riveted with understated performances that suggested deep melancholy and strong desires roiling just under the surface. And offscreen, the intensely private Garbo was perhaps even more mysterious and alluring, as her retirement from Hollywood at age thirty-six only fueled the public's fascination. Ideal Beauty reveals the woman behind the mystique, a woman who overcame an impoverished childhood to become a student at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Academy, an actress in European films, and ultimately a Hollywood star. Chronicling her tough negotiations with Louis B. Mayer at MGM, it shows how Garbo carved out enough power in Hollywood to craft a distinctly new feminist screen presence in films like Queen Christina. Banner draws on over ten years of in-depth archival research in Sweden, Germany, France, and the United States to demonstrate how, away from the camera's glare, Garbo's life was even more intriguing. Ideal Beauty takes a fresh look at an icon who helped to define female beauty in the twentieth century and provides answers to much-debated questions about Garbo's childhood, sexuality, career, illnesses and breakdowns, and spiritual awakening.

Bergsman, Steve / Connors, Carol, All I Want Is Loving You: Popular Female Singers of the 1950s. (American Made Music Series) 277 pp. 2023:11 (U. Pr. Mississippi, US) <708-1093>
ISBN 978-1-4968-4097-4 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4968-4879-6 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

In All I Want Is Loving You: Popular Female Singers of the 1950s, author Steve Bergsman focuses on the white, female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early 1960s. These popular performers, many of whom graduated out of the big bands of the 1940s, impacted popular music in a huge way. As the last bastion of traditional pop and the last sirens of swing, they undeniably shined in the spotlight. Yet these singers' fame dimmed relatively quickly with the advent of rock 'n' roll. A fortunate few, like Doris Day, Patti Page, Peggy Lee, and Debbie Reynolds, experienced some of their biggest hits in the late 1950s, and Eydie Gorme broke out in the 1960s. The luckiest, including Dinah Shore and Rosemary Clooney, ventured to television with varying degrees of success. Others would become major attractions at nightclubs in Las Vegas or, like Teresa Brewer, shift into the jazz world.Though the moment did not last, these performers were best-selling singers, darlings of the disk jockeys, and the frenetic heartbeat of fan clubs during their heyday. In a companion volume, Bergsman has written the history of African American women singers of the same era. These Black musicians transitioned more easily as a new form of music, rock 'n' roll, skyrocketed in popularity. In both books, Bergsman reintroduces readers to these talented singers, offering a thorough look at their work and turning up the volume on their legacy.

Bergsman, Steve / Walker-Moss, Lillian, What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music. (American Made Music Series) 277 pp. 2023:11 (U. Pr. Mississippi, US) <708-1094>
ISBN 978-1-4968-4496-5 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4968-4895-6 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

In What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music, Steve Bergsman highlights the Black female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early 1960s. Many of the singers of this era became wildly famous and respected, and even made it into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. However, there were many others, such as Margie Day, Helen Humes, Nellie Lutcher, Jewel King, and Savannah Churchill, who made one or two great records in the 1950s and then disappeared from the scene. The era featured former jazz and blues singers, who first came to prominence in the 1940s, and others who pioneered early forms of rock 'n' roll.In a companion volume, Bergsman has written the history of white women singers of the same era. Although song styles paralleled, the careers of Black and white female singers of the period ran in very different directions as the decade progressed. The songs of African American vocalists like Dinah Washington and Etta James were R&B segregated or covered by pop singers in the early and mid-1950s but burst into prominence in the last part of the decade and well into the 1960s. White singers, on the other hand, excelled in the early 1950s but saw their careers decline with the advent of rock music. In this volume, Bergsman takes an encyclopedic look at both the renowned and the sadly faded stars of the 1950s, placing them and their music back in the spotlight.

Brickman, Barbara Jane, Suffering Sappho!: Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture. 242 pp. 2023:11 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <708-1097>
ISBN 978-1-9788-2826-1 hard ¥33,660.- (税込) US$ 150.00
ISBN 978-1-9788-2825-4 paper ¥8,066.- (税込) US$ 35.95 *

An ever-expanding and panicked Wonder Woman lurches through a city skyline begging Steve to stop her. A twisted queen of sorority row crashes her convertible trying to escape her queer shame. A suave butch emcee introduces the sequined and feathered stars of the era's most celebrated drag revue. For an unsettled and retrenching postwar America, these startling figures betrayed the failure of promised consensus and appeasing conformity. They could also be cruel, painful, and disciplinary jokes. It turns out that an obsession with managing gender and female sexuality after the war would hardly contain them. On the contrary, it spread their campy manifestations throughout mainstream culture. Offering the first major consideration of lesbian camp in American popular culture, Suffering Sappho! traces a larger-than-life lesbian menace across midcentury media forms to propose five prototypical queer icons-the sicko, the monster, the spinster, the Amazon, and the rebel. On the pages of comics and sensational pulp fiction and the dramas of television and drive-in movies, Barbara Jane Brickman discovers evidence not just of campy sexual deviants but of troubling female performers, whose failures could be epic but whose subversive potential could inspire. Supplemental images of interest related to this title: George and Lomas; Connie Minerva; Cat On Hot Tin; and Beulah and Oriole.

Dove-Viebahn, Aviva, There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises. 212 pp. 2023:12 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <708-1103>
ISBN 978-1-9788-3612-9 hard ¥33,660.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-3611-2 paper ¥7,393.- (税込) US$ 32.95

There She Goes Again interrogates the representation of ostensibly powerful women in transmedia franchises, examining how presumed feminine traits-love, empathy, altruism, diplomacy-are alternately lauded and repudiated as possibilities for effecting long-lasting social change. By questioning how these franchises reimagine their protagonists over time, the book reflects on the role that gendered exceptionalism plays in social and political action, as well as what forms of knowledge and power are presumed distinctly feminine. The franchises explored in this book illustrate the ambivalent (post)feminist representation of women protagonists as uniquely gifted in ways both gendered and seemingly ungendered, and yet inherently bound to expressions of their femininity. At heart,There She Goes Again asks under what terms and in what contexts women protagonists are imagined, envisioned, embodied, and replicated in media. Especially now, in a period of gradually increasing representation, women protagonists demonstrate the importance of considering how we should define-and whether we need-feminine forms of knowledge and power.

Ng, Eve, Mainstreaming Gays: Critical Convergences of Queer Media, Fan Cultures, and Commercial Television. 224 pp. 2023:9 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <708-1121>
ISBN 978-1-9788-3134-6 hard ¥33,660.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-3133-9 paper ¥7,393.- (税込) US$ 32.95 *

Mainstreaming Gays discusses a key transitional period linking the eras of legacy and streaming, analyzing how queer production and interaction that had earlier occurred outside the mainstream was transformed by multiple converging trends: the emergence of digital media, the rising influence of fan cultures, and increasing interest in LGBTQ content within commercial media. The U.S. networks Bravo and Logo broke new ground in the early 2000s and 2010s with their channel programming, as well as bringing in a new cohort of LGBTQ digital content creators, providing unprecedented opportunities for independent queer producers, and hosting distinctive spaces for queer interaction online centered on pop culture and politics rather than dating. These developments constituted the ground from which recent developments for LGBTQ content and queer sociality online have emerged. Mainstreaming Gays is critical reading for those interested in media production, fandom, subcultures, and LGBTQ digital media.

The Subcultures Network, Let's Spend the Night Together: Sex, Pop Music and British Youth Culture, 1950s-80s. 336 pp. 2023:10 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <708-1131>
ISBN 978-1-5261-5998-4 hard ¥27,379.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00 *

Let's spend the night together explores how sex and sexuality provided essential elements of British youth culture in the 1950s through to the 1980s. It shows how the underlying sexual charge of rock 'n'roll - and pop music more generally - was integral to the broader challenge embodied in the youth cultures that developed after World War Two. As teenage hormones rushed to move to the music and take advantage of the spaces opening up through consumption, education and employment, so the boundaries of British morality and cultural propriety were tested and often transgressed. Be it the assertive masculinity of the teds or the lustful longings of the teeny-bopper, the gender-bending of glam or the subterranean allure of an underground club/disco, the free love of the 1960s or the punk provocations in the 1970s, sex was forever to the fore and, more often than not, underpinned the moral panics that fitfully followed any cultural shift in youthful style and behaviour. Drawing from scholarship across a range of disciplines, the Subcultures Network explore how sex and sexuality were experienced, presented, conferred, responded to and understood within the context of youth culture, popular music and social change in the period between World War Two and the advent of AIDS. The essays locate sex, music and youth culture in the context of post-war Britain: with a widening and ever-more prevalent media; amidst the loosening bonds of censorship; in a society shaped by changing patterns of consumption and the emergence of the 'teenager'; existing, as Jeff Nuttall famously argued, under the shadow of the (nuclear) bomb.

Vesey, Alyxandra, Extending Play: The Feminization of Collaborative Music Merchandise in the Early Twenty-First Century. 264 pp. 2023:12 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <708-1133>
ISBN 978-0-19-008563-6 hard ¥28,050.- (税込) US$ 125.00
ISBN 978-0-19-008564-3 paper ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

Despite the hypervisibility of a constellation of female pop stars, the music business is structured around gender inequality. As a result, women in the music industry often seize on self-branding opportunities in fashion, cosmetics, food, and technology for the purposes of professional longevity. Extending Play examines the ubiquity of brand partnerships in the contemporary music industry through the lens of feminized labor, to demonstrate how female artists use them as a resource for artistic expression and to articulate forms of popular feminism through self-commodification. In this book, author Alyxandra Vesey examines this type of promotional work and examines its proliferation in the early 21st century. Though brand partnerships exist across all media industries, they are a distinct phenomenon for the music business because of their associations with fan club merchandise, concert merchandise, and lifestyle branding, often foregrounding women's participation in shaping these economies through fan labor and image management. Through textual and discourse analysis of artists' songs, music videos, interviews, social media usage, promotional campaigns, marketing strategies, and business decisions, Extending Play investigates how female musicians co-create branded feminine-coded products like perfume, clothes, makeup, and cookbooks and masculine-coded products like music equipment as resources to work through their own ideas about gender and femininity as workers in industries that often use sexism and ageism to diminish women's creative authority and diminish the value of the recording in order to incentivize musicians to internalize the demands of industrial convergence. By merging star studies, popular music studies, and media industry studies, Extending Play proposes an integrated methodology for approaching contemporary cultural history that demonstrates how female-identified musicians have operated as both a hub for industrial convergence and as music industry professionals who use their extramusical skills to reassert their creative acumen.

Williams, Hettie V. / Ziobro, Melissa (eds.), A Seat at the Table: Black Women Public Intellectuals in US History and Culture. 277 pp. 2023:10 (U. Pr. Mississippi, US) <708-1137>
ISBN 978-1-4968-4751-5 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4968-4752-2 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Contributions by Omar H. Ali, Simone R. Barrett, Tejai Beulah, Sandra Bolzenius, Carol Fowler, Lacey P. Hunter, Tiera C. Moore, Tedi A. Pascarella, John Portlock, Lauren T. Rorie, Tanya L. Roth, Marissa Jackson Sow, Virginia L. Summey, Hettie V. Williams, and Melissa ZiobroWhile Black women's intellectual history continues to grow as an important subfield in historical studies, there remains a gap in scholarship devoted to the topic. To date, major volumes on American intellectual history tend to exclude the words, ideas, and contributions of these influential individuals. A Seat at the Table: Black Women Public Intellectuals in US History and Culture seeks to fill this void, presenting essays on African American women within the larger context of American intellectual history. Divided into four parts, the volume considers women in politics, art, government, journalism, media, education, and the military. Essays feature prominent figures such as Shirley Chisholm, Oprah Winfrey, journalist Charlotta Bass, and anti-abortion activist Mildred Fay Jefferson, as well as lesser-known individuals.The anthology begins with a discussion of the founders in Black women's public intellectualism, providing a framework for understanding the elements, structure, and concerns central to their lives and work in the nineteenth century. The second section focuses on leaders in the Black Christian intellectual tradition, the civil rights era, and modern politics. Part three examines Black women in society and culture in the twentieth century, with essays on such topics as artists in the New Negro era; Joycelyn Elders, a public servant and former surgeon general; and America's foremost Black woman influencer, Oprah. Lastly, part four concerns Black women and their ideas about public service-particularly military service-with essays on service members during World War II and the post-WWII military. Taken as a whole, A Seat at the Table is an important anthology that helps to establish the validity and existence of heretofore neglected intellectual traditions in the public square.

Evans, Stephanie Y. / Shonekan, S. / Adams, S. G. (eds.), Dear Department Chair: Letters from Black Women Leaders to the Next Generation. 277 pp. 2023:9 (Wayne State U. Pr., US) <708-1170>
ISBN 978-0-8143-5074-4 paper ¥5,606.- (税込) US$ 24.99 *

Practical and candid, this book offers actionable steps to help Black women leaders create meaningful success. The reflections and recommendations of the contributors forge a critical and transformative analysis of race, gender, and higher education leadership. With insights from humanities, social sciences, art, and STEM, this essential resource helps to redefine the academy to meet the challenges of the future. Dear Department Chair is comprised of personal letters from prominent Black women department chairs, deans, vice provosts, and university presidents, addressed to current and future Black women academic professionals, and offers a rich source of peer mentorship and professional development. These letters emerged from Chair at the Table, a research collective and peer-mentoring network of current and former Black women department chairs at colleges and universities across the U.S. and Canada. The collective's works, including this volume, serve as tools for faculty interested in administration, current chairs seeking mentorship, and upper-level administrators working to diversify their ranks.

Hines, Erik M. / Fletcher, Edward C., Jr. (eds.), Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling. (Advances in Race and Ethnicity in Education 9) 428 pp. 2023:12 (Emerald, UK) <708-1172>
ISBN 978-1-80455-579-8 hard ¥34,782.- (税込) US$ 155.00 *

Black males face several active and inactive discriminations across society. In education, they encounter stiffer disciplinary actions such as out of school suspension and expulsion than their White peers, are overrepresented in special education programs as well as over diagnosed; are underrepresented in gifted in talented programs; advanced placement and honors courses; and have the lower college graduation rates compared to other racial groups. Although these issues are barriers to Black male success, we know that for every challenge, there is a solution to improving academic, career, and life outcomes for Black males. Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education contributes to the existing literature on this population with a focus on teaching, mentoring, advising, and counseling Black boys and men, from preschool to graduate/professional school and beyond into their careers. The chapter authors address the gap on research from a strengths-based perspective, around implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black male educational attainment, the increased anti-black racism around police racial profiling and disciplinary issues in education, and academic and career outcomes of Black males. More importantly, the chapter authors provide recommendations for policy, practice and research.

Njoku, Anuli / Evans, Marian (eds.), Navigating Academia During COVID-19: Perspectives and Strategies from BIPOC Women. 172 pp. 2023:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <708-1181>
ISBN 978-3-031-35612-4 hard ¥36,461.- (税込) EUR 149.99 *

This edited volume provides personal narratives of a diverse group of scholars in academia regarding strategies to navigate academia during times of COVID-19 and unrest. Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) women in academia are grappling with emotional tolls and invisible burdens, discrimination, political turmoil, social unrest, and public health crises. Moreover, the rapid pivot response to COVID-19 has exacerbated inequities among BIPOC women in academia. This book explores their stories of ordeal, triumph, loss, and hope.

Smith, Barbara (ed.), Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. 40th Anniversary ed. 506 pp. 2023:10 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <708-1187>
ISBN 978-1-9788-3900-7 hard ¥14,125.- (税込) US$ 62.95 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-3899-4 paper ¥6,271.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and contains work by many of feminism's foremost thinkers. This edition features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides Barbara Smith the opportunity to look back on forty years of the struggle, as well as the influence the work in this book has had on generations of feminists. The preface from the previous Rutgers edition remains, as well as all of the original pieces, set in a fresh new package. Contributors: Tania Abdulahad, Donna Allegra, Barbara A. Banks, Becky Birtha, Cenen, Cheryl Clarke, Michelle Cliff, Michelle T. Clinton, Willi (Willie) M. Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Alexis De Veaux, Jewelle L. Gomez, Akasha (Gloria) Hull, Patricia Spears Jones, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Raymina Y. Mays, Deidre McCalla, Chirlane McCray, Pat Parker, Linda C. Powell, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Spring Redd, Gwendolyn Rogers, Kate Rushin, Ann Allen Shockley, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, Shirley O. Steele, Luisah Teish, Jameelah Waheed, Alice Walker, and Renita J. Weems.

Brock, Theresa, The Visionary Queen: Justice, Reform, and the Labyrinth in Marguerite de Navarre. (Early Modern Feminsms) 238 pp. 2023:10 (U. Delaware Pr., US) <708-1204>
ISBN 978-1-64453-327-7 hard ¥33,660.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-64453-308-6 paper ¥7,393.- (税込) US$ 32.95 *

The Visionary Queen affirms Marguerite de Navarre's status not only as a political figure, author, or proponent of nonschismatic reform but also as a visionary. In her life and writings, the queen of Navarre dissected the injustices that her society and its institutions perpetuated against women. We also see evidence that she used her literary texts, especially the Heptameron, as an exploratory space in which to generate a creative vision for institutional reform. The Heptameron's approach to reform emerges from statistical analysis of the text's seventy-two tales, which reveals new insights into trends within the work, including the different categories of wrongdoing by male, institutional representatives from the Church and aristocracy, as well as the varying responses to injustice that characters in the tales employ as they pursue reform. Throughout its chapters, The Visionary Queen foregrounds the trope of the labyrinth, a potent symbol in early modern Europe that encapsulated both the fallen world and redemption, two themes that underlie Marguerite's project of reform.

Dima, Ramona, Queer Culture in Romania, 1920-2018. 210 pp. 2023:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <708-1206>
ISBN 978-3-031-38848-4 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book is an in depth, extensive study of Romanian queer cultural products. It brings an essential contribution to the literature on Central and South Eastern European gender studies, post-communism studies, media, and cultural studies, as well as transnational queer studies. The book looks at Romanian queer culture "from inside", and from the acknowledgment that the research process is guided by the sensitivity of the approached topics, by the lack of archival footprints, and by a solid dose of media archaeology, especially when looking at the beginning of Romanian LGBT+ activism in the 90s. The book starts from contemporary Romanian cultural products that are focusing on queer topics and/or produced by queer creators. It looks back at the memories of seminal queer and trans activists in extensive interviews conducted for this volume, and fragmented literary and media sources that cover the most part of the 20th century. About the translation This book has been translated from Romanian by Andreea Moise. The Introduction and Chapter 6 were translated by Maria Cohut.

Gornicka, Barbara / Doyle, Mark (eds.), Sex and Sexualities in Ireland: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. (Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences) 332 pp. 2023:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <708-1210>
ISBN 978-3-031-36549-2 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This edited collection provides an invaluable resource of seventeen chapters from a wide range of academic disciplines. These chapters place sex and sexualities in Ireland in historical context and take the reader through the structural changes that have transformed the expression of sexuality in Ireland from one of self-denial to self-expression. The collection does not however unquestionably assume a linear narrative of progress: new issues and challenges are also addressed throughout. This book will be of interest to students and scholars from a range of disciplines including sociology, social policy, history, media, gender studies and psychology. The collection is divided into six separate but interlinked thematic sections: Sexualities in Historical Irish Contexts, Young Adults, Sexual Health, and Education, Sexual Practices and Health, Minority Sexualities and Genders, Sex Work in Ireland and Activism and Contestation.

近現代イギリスにおける男性とマスキュリニティ
Houlbrook, Matt / Jones, Katie / Mechen, Ben (eds.), Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain: A History for the Present. 344 pp. 2024:1 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <708-1212>
ISBN 978-1-5261-7469-7 hard ¥7,205.- (税込) GB￡ 25.00 *

Men and masculinities provides an engaging, accessible and provocative introduction to histories of masculinity for all readers interested in contemporary gender politics. The book offers a critical overview of ongoing historiographical debates and the historical making of men's lives and identities and ideas of masculinity between the 1890s and the present day. In setting out a new agenda for the field, it makes an ambitious argument for the importance of writing histories which are present-centred and politically engaged. This means that the book engages head-on with ferocious debates about men's social position and the status of masculinity in contemporary public life. In establishing a critical genealogy for the proliferation of this crisis talk, it sets out new ways of understanding how men's lives and ideas of masculinity have changed over time while patriarchy and male power have persisted.

市場に関する政治－革命期フランスにおける労働、ジェンダー、市民権
Jarvis, Katie, La politique sur les marches: travail, genre et citoyennete dans la France revolutionnaire. (Histoire) 387 p. 2023:6 (Pr. U. de Rennes, FR) <708-1213>
ISBN 978-2-7535-8970-4 paper ¥6,806.- (税込) EUR 28.00

Kierner, Cynthia A., The Tory's Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America. (The Revolutionary Age) 224 pp. 2023:8 (U. Virginia Pr., US) <708-1214>
ISBN 978-0-8139-4991-8 hard ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic ways--and from different sides. This engrossing book tells the story of Jane Welborn Spurgin, a patriot who welcomed General Nathanael Greene to her home and aided Continental forces while her loyalist husband was fighting for the king as an officer in the Tory militia. By focusing on the wife of a middling backcountry farmer, esteemed historian Cynthia Kierner shows how the Revolution not only toppled long-established political hierarchies but also strained family ties and drew women into the public sphere to claim both citizenship and rights--as Jane Spurgin did with a dramatic series of petitions to the North Carolina state legislature when she fought to reclaim her family's lost property after the war was over.While providing readers with stories of battles, horse-stealing, bigamy, and exile that bring the Revolutionary era vividly to life, this book also serves as an invaluable examination of the potentially transformative effects of war and revolution, both personally and politically.

Lavoie, Chantel, Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century: Age, Gender, and Work. 240 pp. 2023:11 (U. Delaware Pr., US) <708-1215>
ISBN 978-1-64453-320-8 hard ¥33,660.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-64453-319-2 paper ¥9,637.- (税込) US$ 42.95 *

Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century explores how boyhood was constructed in different creative spaces that reflected the lived experience of young boys through the long eighteenth century-not simply in children's literature but in novels, poetry, medical advice, criminal broadsides, and automaton exhibitions. The chapters encompass such rituals as breeching, learning to read and write, and going to school. They also consider the lives of boys such as chimney sweeps and convicted criminals, whose bodily labor was considered their only value and who often did not live beyond boyhood. Defined by a variety of tasks, expectations, and objectifications, boys-real, imagined, and sometimes both-were subject to the control of their elders and were used as tools in the cause of civil society, commerce, and empire. This book argues that boys in the long eighteenth century constituted a particular kind of currency, both valuable and expendable-valuable because of gender, expendable because of youth.

18世紀における女性と労働の再生
Ledoux, Ellen Malenas, Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century. 296 pp. 2023:10 (U. Virginia Pr., US) <708-1216>
ISBN 978-0-8139-5027-3 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8139-5028-0 paper ¥6,619.- (税込) US$ 29.50 *

Motherhood inherently involves labor. The seemingly perennial notion that paid work outside the home and motherhood are incompatible, however, grows out of specific cultural conditions established in Britain and her colonies during the long eighteenth century. With Laboring Mothers, Ellen Malenas Ledoux synthesizes and expands on two feminist dialogues to deliver an innovative transatlantic cultural history of working motherhood. Addressing both actual historical women and fabricated representations of a type, Ledoux demonstrates how contingent ideas about the public sphere and maternity functioned together to create systems of power and privilege among working mothers.Popular culture has long thrown doubt on the idea that women can be both productive and reproductive at the same time. Although the critical task of raising and providing for a family should, in theory, foster solidarity, this has not historically proven the case. Laboring Mothers demonstrates how contemporary associations surrounding economic status, race, and working motherhood have their roots in an antiquated and rigid system of inequality among women that dates back to the Enlightenment.

イギリス革命におけるジェンダーとラディカルな神学
Apetrei, Sarah, The Reformation of the Heart: Gender and Radical Theology in the English Revolution. 240 pp. 2024:1 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <708-122>
ISBN 978-0-19-883600-1 hard ¥21,903.- (税込) GB￡ 76.00 *

The Reformation of the Heart: Gender and Radical Theology in the English Revolution offers fresh insight into the relationship between radical theology and gender radicalism in the English Revolution. It addresses together two themes which have long fascinated historians of the period: the intellectual formation of religious radicalism, and the prominence of women as prophets and preachers in radical sects. Sarah Apetrei explores the remarkable ideas and reforming visions of a levelling and highly mystical network in the period of civil conflict, the regicide, and its aftermath--a network which linked military chaplains with inspired women and congregations across England. Drawing on both printed works and previously unexamined manuscript evidence, Apetrei discovers that revolutionary radicals were both more theologically daring, and more unified in their support for women's participation, than we have hitherto thought. On one side, the army chaplains and radical preachers developed a highly original theology of gender, conceiving of a female principle in the Godhead. They were also explicit advocates of women's preaching to an extent previously unacknowledged. Concomitantly, women's involvement in preaching and publishing during this period of crisis fostered innovative thinking. In a climate in which Reformed teachings about the limits of election were being reasserted, women were pioneers in teaching the doctrine of universal salvation or 'general redemption'. Female theologians and visionaries also played a prominent part in the dissemination of ideas, drawn from European radical reformations and condemned by the magisterial churches, about the 'heavenly flesh' of Christ and its appearance in the bodies of the saints in the last days. They used highly feminized, maternal imagery to discuss Christ. As such, this book also contributes to feminist epistemology. It shows how, as a group with distinctive experiences, priorities, and cultural identities, the involvement of women in religious reform and the conception of ideas can be truly transformative.

Marcasciano, Porpora, AntoloGaia: Queering the Seventies, A Radical Trans Memoir. Tr. by F. Pascuzzi et al. (Other Voices of Italy) 364 pp. 2023:10 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <708-1220>
ISBN 978-1-9788-3579-5 hard ¥16,369.- (税込) US$ 72.95 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-3578-8 paper ¥7,841.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

In this stirring memoir by a member of the first generation of LGBTQ+ activists in Italy, Porpora Marcasciano tells her story and shares the struggles and accomplishments of her fellow activists who achieved so much in the 1970s yet suffered devastating losses during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. AntoloGaia offers an insider's look at the beginnings of the gay liberation movement in Italy and reveals how it was intimately intertwined with other forms of left-wing activism. At the same time, it powerfully conveys the queer joy of a young person from a small village first encountering the vibrant sexual minority communities of Naples, Bologna, and Rome. As Marcasciano starts to embrace her trans identity, she meets the famous anthropologist Pino Simonelli, who introduces her to Naples's unique femminielli subculture and gives her the name Porporino, which she later shortens to Porpora. In keeping with this story of gender, sexual, and political discovery, AntoloGaia is the first piece of Italian life-writing to use gender-neutral and mixed-gender language.

Mayernick, Jason, Not Alone: LGB Teachers Organizations from 1970 to 1985. (New Directions in the History of Education) 242 pp. 2023:12 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <708-1222>
ISBN 978-1-9788-2593-2 hard ¥33,660.- (税込) US$ 150.00
ISBN 978-1-9788-2589-5 paper ¥8,515.- (税込) US$ 37.95

Between 1970 and 1985, lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) educators publicly left their classroom closets, formed communities, and began advocating for a place of openness and safety for LGB people in America's schools. They fought for protection and representation in the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, as well as building community and advocacy in major gay and lesbian teacher organizations in New York, Los Angeles, and Northern California. In so doing, LGB teachers went from being a profoundly demonized and silenced population that suffered as symbolically emblematic of the harmful "bad teacher" to being an organized community of professionals deserving of rights, capable of speaking for themselves, and often able to reframe themselves as "good teachers." This prescient book shows how LGB teachers and their allies broadened the boundaries of professionalism, negotiated for employment protection, and fought against political opponents who wanted them pushed out of America's schools altogether.

Roelens, Jonas, Citizens and Sodomites: Persecution and Perception of Sodomy in the Southern Low Countries (1400-1700). (Crime and City in History 6) 420 pp. 2024 (Brill, NE) <708-1228>
ISBN 978-90-04-68595-6 hard ¥29,901.- (税込) EUR 123.00 *

The Southern Low Countries were among Europe's core regions for the repression of sodomy during the late medieval period. As the first comprehensive study on sodomy in the Southern Low Countries, this book charts the prosecution of sodomy in some of the region's leading cities, such as Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp, from 1400 to 1700 and explains the reasons behind local differences and variations in the intensity of prosecution over time. Through a critical examination of a range of sources, this study also considers how the urban fabric perceived sodomy and provides a broader interpretive framework for its meaning within the local culture.

ジェンダーを疑う－社会学的考察　第5版
Ryle, Robyn R., Questioning Gender: A Sociological Exploration. 5th ed. 520 pp. 2023:11 (Sage, UK) <708-1229>
ISBN 978-1-07-188403-4 paper ¥29,684.- (税込) GB￡ 103.00 *

Questioning Gender: A Sociological Exploration serves as a point-of-departure for productive conversations and questions about gender and as a resource for exploring answers to many of those questions.

Smith, Barbara (ed.), The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom. 25th Anniversary ed. 232 pp. 2023:10 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <708-1231>
ISBN 978-1-9788-3905-2 hard ¥14,125.- (税込) US$ 62.95
ISBN 978-1-9788-3904-5 paper ¥6,271.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

Barbara Smith has been doing groundbreaking work since the early 1970s, describing a Black feminism for Black women. Her work in Black women's literary traditions; in examining the sexual politics of the lives of women of color; in representing the lives of Black lesbians and gay men; and in making connections between race, class, sexuality and gender is gathered in The Truth That Never Hurts. This collection contains some of her major essays on Black women's literature, Black lesbian writing, racism in the women's movement, Black-Jewish relations, and homophobia in the Black community. Her forays into these areas ignited dialogue about topics that few other writers were addressing at the time, and which, sadly, remain pertinent to this day. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition, in a beautiful new package, also contains the essays from the original about the 1968 Chicago convention demonstrations; attacks on the NEA; the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas Senate hearings; and police brutality against Rodney King and Abner Louima, which, after twenty-five years, still have the urgency they did when they were first written.

Strub, Whitney (ed.), Queer Newark: Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community. 270 pp. 2024:2 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <708-1232>
ISBN 978-1-9788-2922-0 hard ¥14,125.- (税込) US$ 62.95 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-2921-3 paper ¥6,271.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

Histories of gay and lesbian urban life typically focus on major metropolitan areas like San Francisco and New York, opportunity-filled destinations for LGBTQ migrants from across the country. Yet there are many other queer communities in economically depressed cities with majority Black and Hispanic populations that receive far less attention. Though just a few miles from New York, Newark is one of these cities, and its queer histories have been neglected-until now. Queer Newark charts a history in which working-class people of color are the central actors and in which violence, poverty, and homophobia could never suppress joy, resistance, love, and desire. Drawing from rare archives that range from oral histories to vice squad reports, this collection's authors uncover the sites and people of Newark's queer past in bars, discos, ballrooms, and churches. Exploring the intersections of class, race, gender, and sexuality, they offer fresh perspectives on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, community relations with police, Latinx immigration, and gentrification, while considering how to best tell the rich and complex stories of queer urban life. Queer Newark reveals a new side of New Jersey's largest city while rewriting the history of LGBTQ life in America.

Tallent, Alistaire, Fictions of Pleasure: The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France. (Early Modern Feminisms) 238 pp. 2023:12 (U. Delaware Pr., US) <708-1233>
ISBN 978-1-64453-324-6 hard ¥33,660.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-64453-323-9 paper ¥10,310.- (税込) US$ 45.95 *

Out of the libertine literary tradition of eighteenth-century France emerged over a dozen memoir novels of female libertines who eagerly take up sex work as a means of escape from the patriarchal control of fathers and husbands to pursue pleasure, wealth, and personal independence outside the private, domestic sphere. In these anonymously published novels, the heroines proudly declare themselves prostitutes, or putains, and use the desire they arouse, the professional skills they develop, and the network of female friends they create to exploit, humiliate, and financially ruin wealthy and powerful men. In pursuing their desires, the putains challenge contemporary notions of womanhood and expose the injustices of ancien-regime France. Until the French Revolution spelled the end of the genre, these novels proposed not only an appealing libertine utopia in which libertine women enjoy the same benefits as their male counterparts but also entirely new ways of looking at systems of power, gender, and sexuality.

Zionkowski, Linda / Hart, Miriam F. (eds.), Women and Music in the Age of Austen. (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850) 272 pp. 2023:12 (Bucknell U. Pr., US) <708-1237>
ISBN 978-1-68448-516-1 hard ¥36,577.- (税込) US$ 163.00 *
ISBN 978-1-68448-515-4 paper ¥11,881.- (税込) US$ 52.95 *

Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes its formative and lasting effect on Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from musicology, literary studies, and gender studies challenges the conventional historical categories that marginalize women's experience from Austen's time. Contesting the distinctions between professional and amateur musicians, public and domestic sites of musical production, and performers and composers of music, the contributors reveal how women's widespread involvement in the Georgian musical scene allowed for self-expression, artistic influence, and access to communities that transcended the boundaries of gender, class, and nationality. This volume's breadth of focus advances our understanding of a period that witnessed a musical flourishing, much of it animated by female hands and voices. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Cagatay, Selin / Ghit, Alexandra et al. (eds.), Through the Prism of Gender and Work: Women's Labour Struggles in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond, 19th and 20th Centuries. (Studies in Global Social History 51) 550 pp. 2024 (Brill, NE) <708-1238>
ISBN 978-90-04-68246-7 hard ¥36,221.- (税込) EUR 149.00 *

This book examines women's activism in and beyond Central and Eastern Europe and transnationally within and across different historical periods, political regimes, and scales of activism. The authors explore the wide range of activist agendas, repertoires, and forums in which women sought to advocate for their gender and labour interests. Women were engaged in trade unions, women-only organizations, state institutions, and international and intellectual networks, and were active on the shopfloor. Rectifying geopolitical and thematic imbalances in labour and gender history, this volume is a valuable resource for scholars and students of women's activism, social movements, political and intellectual history, and transnationalism. Contributors are: Eloisa Betti, Masha Bratishcheva, Jan A. Burek, Selin Cagatay, Daria Dyakonova, Matyas Erdelyi, Dora Fedeles-Czeferner, Eric Fure-Slocum, Alexandra Ghi?, Olga Gnydiuk, Maren Hachmeister, Veronika Helfert, Natalia Jarska, Marie Lanikova, Ivelina Masheva, Jean-Pierre Liotard-Vogt, Denisa Nestakova, Sophia Polek, Zhanna Popova, Buesra Sati, Masha Shpolberg, Georg Spitaler, Jelena Tesija, Eszter Varsa, Johanna Wolf and Susan Zimmermann.